I decided to make a day of my San Diego adventure because I don't get down there enough, and I love it. There is so much to do. My first stop was going to be lunch and shopping in Hillcrest. I walked all around from one end to another. I stopped in lots of the stores- furniture and clothing stores, cute undies shops, and whatever else I came across. I was tempted to buy some cute undies, but at $20+ a pair I had a hard time doing that. All of the shop owners were very friendly- the old lady who owned one of the undies shops and she "suggested" a pair for me... hahaha.... and the flirty guy in one of the furniture stores. I decided to eat at Bite because it had pretty good reviews and a chicken torta con fruta was only $6.95, which wasn't bad. It was pretty tasty, although I'm not a fan of pesto sauces. The sandwich oozed of brie cheese, which was good, and the fruit was very sweet. Good deal.
A look inside Bite
After this I head over to Mission Valley's Westfield Shoppingtown to go to the 2 story Target with a cart escalator. That's one of my favorite memories- coming down with parents to go there when I was a kid. I remember going 2 or 3 times when I was little. Actually I wanted to go to the Nordstrom Rack- it was 2 to 3 times the size of the one at Ontario Mills. It was crowded. I didn't find anything I couldn't live without. I walked around the mall, then headed to my next place.
I went to Little Italy next, and saw that Downtown SD was not too crowded. Not much to do. I walked around in about 25 minutes.
Back in the car and over to Gaslamp. I park right across from Petco Park, home of the Padres. It is 3:45pm and I am not meeting Gonzo until 5. I figured that would give me time to scout out restaurants and shop. I wanted to go to ZGallerie, but it closed down apparently. I also wanted to go to a few clothing and other stores. I manage to hit everything and stop at the Ghirardelli Chocolate Shop for an ice cream cone. I go over to the Horton Plaza Mall to see what they have and use the ATM at the credit union over by there since I wasn't going to be charged fees. Gonzo texts me at 4:55 and says it looks more like 6. I say that's no problem and another hour flies by.
Gonzo and I meet in front of the Convention Center since we figure that's the easiest place to find each other since there were tons of people walking the streets. Ugh. More walking. I had probably walked 4-5 miles already, and didn't want to walk anymore. I sucked it up. We meet and talk about food. I share my finds, and she says she wants to take me to a place she went to last year when she was at this conference. She said we were going to Mexican food at Horton Plaza. I had seen a La Salsa Mexican place and cringed- that wasn't my idea of Mexican, but she isn't the most Mexican, and I didn't really care, I was just hungry. We have a fun time walking and talking and scouting out bars and places to go. We get to the mall and just next to La Salsa is an incredible taco place. These tacos were amazing- we went to Micho's Tacos. They had original tacos like your asada and carintas taco you could choose in the combo, as well as a specialty taco like a New York taco, a cheese taco, and several other combinations. I try the asada taco, which had tons of meat, a homemade corn tortilla, and a cilantro and onion mixture with salsa on top. It was one of the best tacos I've had in recent memory. I had the New York taco too, and this had meat, avocado, a white sauce, and cheese. The New York taco was not so impressive, but that was ok. I was happy. The beans and chips that came with the combo were soso, but the tacos were great, so it balances out.
We walk back to the Petco Park area to meet Marci who drove down. We all head to Gonzo's hotel to get ready for our night out. We head down 5th Avenue, since that's where the action is. We think about heading to Whiskey Girl, but there wasn't too much action there yet at 9pm. We decide on the Tipsy Crow, which was already happening. The girls didn't have to pay cover, but I did. We go in and I order a drink, and the girls order kamakazis. The drinks were VERY weak, and so of course that meant we were all pretty sober. The girls didn't want to get up and dance claiming there weren't enough people in the basement, but a couple times I did get up and dragged Gonzo out with me at least a couple feet away from our seating on the outer edge. We sat talking, discussing who entered, looking at the crowd. There was one super hot guy who was 6'2 or so, in a green Affliction shirt, glasses, dark hair, who was dancing with his girl, and damn how I wished he was gay... hahaha... he was FINE. I chatted with a few guys on grindr including one who was in the bar, but he didn't know who I was since I don't have a face pic posted, and he was just more curious in knowing how accurate the distance thing was on grindr. I did try to chat him up just because I was feeling a little frisky. I did go venture on my own to see who he was, and found him on the first floor, but didn't chat him up. That was pretty crazy. The girls and I took lots of facebook photos and commented on each others facebook posts. The music was pretty good- it wasn't all just club music, and I knew 95% of the songs. He played some strange stuff, not exactly dance music like Bon Jovi's Living on a Prayer and Sweet Home Alabama, Train, Rob Thomas, as well as some rap mixed in. How do you dance to Bon Jovi? We do dance to a few songs in the last 30 minutes of being there.
We take off about 12 and think about going to Whiskey Girl, but there is a huge line. We pass. We decide to call it a night. I walk the girls back to Gonzo's hotel since I see there aren't many people in the direction of their hotel. We decide we have to take elevator photos. The hotel they are staying at has elevators that are mirrored all around on the sides and the ceiling. We take photos of us all looking up at the ceiling with our phones.
I walk back to my car and head home. I leave about 12:45 and get home at 2:15. There was tons of construction on the 163 and 15, and both were shut down at some points. There was also quite a bit of fog in some places. It was a good night in that I didn't lose any of the San Diego stations until I was a good 20+ miles beyond San Diego County in like Menifee. KYXY 96.5 soft rock actually came in all the way home and I was able to pick it up without static. I was amazed.
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50s Sock Hop
My parents were at John's parent's party, the sock hop. They had a great time. It was a surprise party for one of the women in the group. Kind of sad I missed it- they roasted a pig again this year, which was sooooo delicious last year. Anyways, I'm glad I missed in this regard.
Remember The Mike's (the 2 asses I used to be good friends from high school, but have issues over things like my sexuality). My sister was also the one sending him texts about how she was glad one of the Mike's lost his job etc. etc. before I put a password on my phone and made sure that my phone is on me at all times. Remember how John and I are cool, but I'm not with The Mike's, but of course they are oh so friendly in public when we do encounter each other. Anyways, enough of that tangent, Mike #1 was there because John invited him, but this is the first time he came, he never shows. Well, Mike has some new idea about rekindling his friendship with me. Mike came over to talk to my parents and talked to him for a while. He misses me so much. He saw me at Elephant Bar a few weeks back, and I didn't leave my friends to go hang out with him, it was like I was brushing him off. Poor soul. My mom found it funny as she was relaying the story to me this morning that I, of course would not leave friends, a large group of people that I was with to go hang out with him because that would have been inconsiderate of the people I'm with. Good, she understands. Mike was so hurt, and so sad I wasn't there, and he hasn't talked with me in ages, he doesn't know what I'm up to, doesn't know what's going on, doesn't know why we don't hang out anymore. Poor thing. My dad basically told him I was busy, I had other commitments, but would try to get in contact with him. Yeah, right.
Other than that my parents had a fun time singing, and there was some dancing I guess, as well as great food.
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